Examples of caustic soda in a Sentence
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At the Kentucky depot, nerve agents were mixed with hot water and caustic soda to reduce their toxicity before being shipped to another facility for incineration, Abaie said.
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Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
Advertisement At the Kentucky depot, nerve agents were mixed with hot water and caustic soda to reduce their toxicity before being shipped to another facility for incineration, Abaie said.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
Strikes hit an alumina refinery and damaged warehouses containing fuel and caustic soda, potentially leaking highly alkaline bauxite residue into the waterway.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
Dissolved in tubs of caustic soda?
—Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2022
The only form of asbestos known to be currently imported, processed or distributed for use in the U.S. is chrysotile asbestos, which is imported from Brazil and used by the chlor-alkali industry, which produces bleach, caustic soda and other products.
—CBS News, 5 Apr. 2022
Many, especially urbanites who have never encountered the plant, are unaware that coca does not induce the same effects as the drug and that to extract cocaine from the leaf requires an arduous process, involving a toxic mixture of gasoline, cement, ammonia, caustic soda, and other chemicals.
—Christina Noriega, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2021
The plant manufactures chlorine and caustic soda.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
Chlorine and caustic soda were the focus of its chemical operation, financial statements show, driving more than $4 billion in annual sales.
—Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
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Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
Advertisement At the Kentucky depot, nerve agents were mixed with hot water and caustic soda to reduce their toxicity before being shipped to another facility for incineration, Abaie said.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
Strikes hit an alumina refinery and damaged warehouses containing fuel and caustic soda, potentially leaking highly alkaline bauxite residue into the waterway.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
Dissolved in tubs of caustic soda?
—Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2022
The only form of asbestos known to be currently imported, processed or distributed for use in the U.S. is chrysotile asbestos, which is imported from Brazil and used by the chlor-alkali industry, which produces bleach, caustic soda and other products.
—CBS News, 5 Apr. 2022
Many, especially urbanites who have never encountered the plant, are unaware that coca does not induce the same effects as the drug and that to extract cocaine from the leaf requires an arduous process, involving a toxic mixture of gasoline, cement, ammonia, caustic soda, and other chemicals.
—Christina Noriega, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2021
The plant manufactures chlorine and caustic soda.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
Chlorine and caustic soda were the focus of its chemical operation, financial statements show, driving more than $4 billion in annual sales.
—Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
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First Known Use
1796, in the meaning defined above
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“Caustic soda.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caustic%20soda. Accessed 28 Sep. 2023.
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